DjchunKfunK wrote:I've opened up the mine carts so I can get around the world a bit quicker now. Horses would be nice, but sheep and pigs are my main goal right now.

Yep, mine carts are huge too. But halving the time it takes to get anywhere else is huge. I doubted it too - horse was one of the last animals I got after chickens, ducks, rabbits, cows, goats and pigs... but in any subsequent playthrough it will be the first.

Pigs are great too, admittedly. Took a while for them to get going, but they're finding over a truffle each per day now, and my two oil-makers are basically running 24/7 to keep up. Good money.

I didn't bother with sheep though, as rabbits generate wool as well (no idea why) but without the need of shears (they just drop it), and also have a chance of dropping highly valuable rabbit's feet, which is a universal 'like' if you're giving gifts to people (all except Penny, who hates them).

FYI on the pigs, the description wasn't clear - I thought I needed to let them out of the little yard/pen I built around the barn in order for them to go and find truffles, but they'll actually do it inside that yard area. Means they don't find any during winter, which is a bit of a drag, making them the only animal that doesn't produce in that quarter of the year.

FYI II a patch landed today that increased the requirements for building kegs. I think they need oak or pine resin now, which takes a while to generate, so if you aren't already tapping a bunch of those trees on your farm you should probably start asap.

So gutted, died for the first time in the mines last night, and lost a shedload of stuff from my pack. I had been smelting, so all my coal reserves were in my pack, plus loads of stone, wood, hardwood, all things that are a pain to harvest and all gone. Plus that voyage to the mines had seen me reach level 100 - I lost the star that I won at level 100, plus have 'forgotten' the previous 11 levels.

Like a tit, I didn't think to just quit and reload, starting the day afresh either, so have saved the damned game again since.

Currently the beta is only available to Steam users. GOG users will gain access in a few days.

To enable the beta in Steam, right click the game in your library and select properties. On the window that pops up there will be a ‘betas’ tab. In the text box, type the password for the branch: jumpingjunimos. Then click the ‘Check Code’ button.

If you’ve done that correctly, you will now be able to select the ‘beta’ option from the drop down box.

New contentAdded multiplayer over GOG, Steam, or LAN. This includes chat with custom emotes, and new Cabin buildings.Added Night Market event.Added Community Upgrade to Carpenter's Shop.Added buildable shipping bins to Carpenter's Shop.Added Abigail encounter at level 20 in the mines.Added new heart events for Jas, Linus, Pam, Vincent, and Willy.Added new heart events when player has given a bouquet to all bachelors or bachelorettes.Added rare treasure chest rooms in Skull Cavern.Added new monsters in the Skull Cavern: Carbon Ghost, Iridium Bat, and Iridium Crab.Added Secret Notes and related quests.Added new items: Auto-Grabber, Cactus Seeds, Garden Pot, Wood Sign and Stone Sign, Solid Gold Lewis statue, Pearl, Wedding Ring, Iridium Snake Milk, and decorative items sold at shops and festivals throughout the year.Added Bear's Knowledge, Special Charm, Spring Onion Mastery.Added Statue of Uncertainty to change professions.Added different stationery for letters from Sandy and the Wizard.Added horse hats.ChangesBreaking small tree stumps now provides +1 foraging XP.Golden Pumpkin is now a universal love (instead of universal hate).Increased purchase price of wood, stone, ores, and coal in the year 2+. The gold received for selling them is unchanged.Reduced price of Tub o' Flowers from 1000g to 250g, and recipe from 2000g to 1000g.Tweaked several seed packet sprites.Tweaked Mr. Qi dialogue portrait.Gifts now reset on Monday instead of Sunday.You can now add Mayor Lewis' shorts to the Luau soup.You can now put Fire Quartz in the Furnace to produce Refined Quartz.You can now refill a Watering Can at the kitchen sink.Bug fixesFixed crops harvested with a scythe not giving XP.Fixed bee houses always giving wild honey when used on custom farms.Fixed seeds planted out of season disappearing.Fixed player collapse being cancelled when they open the journal.Fixed animal mood & happiness bugs.Fixed crystalarium item swap exploit.Fixed fruit trees being placeable along outer edges of greenhouse.Fixed furniture being usable to complete bundles.Fixed some recipes allowing Milk, but not Large Milk.Fixed crash that occurred after 596 hours of gameplay.Fixed staircase being spawned on mine level 120 when a placed object is destroyed.Several grammar/spelling fixes.